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Monday, August 27, 2007

Georeplication in WSS 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Geographic Replication is not an out of the box feature feature in neither MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0. It is however possible to develop your own geographic replication solution using the WSS object model. Basically, you will need to start looking at the content migration APIs (previously called "Prime" during the beta phase). It is doable to create a "syncing" solution of two or more servers by exporting and importing changes. Implemting conflict resolution for import or export would already provide you with some work. If you want to built a serious solution, take a look at the SPExport and SPImport objects in the SharePoint.Deployment namespace. There is a small code snippet available in the WSS SDK about content import/export.